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Dear Simone Thanks for sharing your opinion. It is true that, as you put it, academics 'survive' by providing metrics of impact for their research. The issue, as I see it, is what you want to do differently. Beyond survival. My 'Shelf' picked to 200+ views since this morning... is this an indication of 'impact'? More importantly, only one person emailed me privately, showing appreciation and saying: I'm only a student and don't yet face the pressures faculty do. I've been thinking lately about an unaffiliated open access repository that's decentralized and peer-to-peer, so that papers might be published without any one identifiable entity responsible. From my experience, many academics do love copyright and metrics for what they are. And I met many. With warm wishes Paolo _______ Dr. Paolo Cardullo Associate Lecturer CUCR - Goldsmiths University of London http://kiddingthecity.org ________________________________ From: simone tulumello <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 11 July 2016 15:59 To: Paolo Cardullo Cc: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CRIT-GEOG-FORUM] academia.edu Dear Reed and others, not a lot to add to what Candice and Paolo said, in fact I agree with both. On the one hand, Academia is an extremely useful tool - online repositories doesn't allow to build one's network of researchers to "follow" and to expand it through what they read and share. On the other hand, when Academia wAs created, it seemed a non for-profit endeavour, while it changed afterwards (or we simply misjudjed it at start). I guess it is one among many contradictions we experience daily in our academic lives: we write anti-capitalist stuff published on corporate owned journals; we fight metrics while checking the number of citations we get on Scholar and how many people tweeted that article of us; and so on and so forth. It is not easy to "fight" when you have to "fight for survival" (in the academia, at least), as most of us actually do on a daily basis. Bests, Simone 2016-07-11 2:03 GMT-05:00 Paolo Cardullo <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>: Dear Reed I share with you the frustration with online repositories, such as Academia or Research Gate (but also Mendeley and Zotero). I used to religiously update my profile on all of those but then I thought that: 1) it takes too much effort or digital labour from my side and 2) they mostly are a profit-making endeavour and flooded me with deeply unwanted metrics and notifications (exactly that sort of neoliberal idea of knowledge I was trying to avoid!). So I quit and switched to my own webpage / blog (link below) as a window onto my work. I actually made it into an algorithmic art project called 'Shelf' and joined the collective at ACME (which is an Open Access journal, by the way). Wishing all the best Paolo _______ Dr. Paolo Cardullo Associate Lecturer CUCR - Goldsmiths University of London http://kiddingthecity.org ________________________________ From: A forum for critical and radical geographers <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> on behalf of Candice Pamela Boyd <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Sent: 11 July 2016 01:53 To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: academia.edu<http://academia.edu> Hi Reed, I first joined up with academia.edu<http://academia.edu> because I wanted an academic website that would keep all my materials in one place even if I moved from one job to another. I think there's a fair investment of time and effort to keep these things up-to-date so it's good to be able to have complete control of it. And it is free. Since joining, I've found it be much more useful than I originally anticipated. It's allowed me to connect to a lot of scholars whose work I may not have come across otherwise. Similarly, it's allowed my work to have a much wider reach then it might have had without it. One of its more useful functions is the Google Analytics which tell you how often your website is accessed, what papers are the most viewed or the most downloaded, what countries those readers are accessing it from. In writing a book proposal recently, I was asked about websites and the ability to promote a book there. It was helpful to be able to quote some of these statistics. Cheers, Candice -- Candice P. Boyd BSc, GradDipEdPsych, MPsych, PhD (Psych), PhD (Geog/Creative Arts) Senior Fellow School of Geography University of Melbourne Victoria, Australia Artist's Website: www.candiceboyd.net<http://www.candiceboyd.net> Academic website: unimelb.academia.edu/CandiceBoyd<http://unimelb.academia.edu/CandiceBoyd> ________________________________________ From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>] on behalf of Reed Underwood [[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>] Sent: 11 July 2016 07:09 To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: New Issue of ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies People, Why do people use Academia.edu as a document repository? I ask because Springer's polemical piece in the latest ACME links out to a response from Levi Gahman, but it's on Academia.edu and requires a Google or Facebook account or an email address and other information to download the PDF. I've run up against this too many times to count, and I thought I'd ask the list what gives. Clearly, lots of people find the site useful and like to publish manuscripts and things there. Why? To me, it's really disappointing when I want to read something but don't want to hand over my information to yet another website (especially one that shares funders with Uber). But I understand that it's entirely possible the site is so useful to its members as to make that an acceptable tradeoff. I know lots of institutions provide open access repositories for their students and faculty. Is Academia.edu easier to use or otherwise preferable to these? Is there a need for easier-to-use open access repositories or for free ones available to independent scholars or researchers at institutions that don't provide such a system? Cheers, Reed On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 07:07:26PM +0000, Sarah de Leeuw wrote: > Good morning from British Columbia, Canada, colleagues. > > I’m happy to say the latest issue of ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies is now available (see below and http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme). > > As always, the ACME Collective is dedicated to bringing you the very best in critical geographical scholarship in an Open Access format. > > If you’re intrested in submitting to ACME, don’t hesitate to be in touch with members of the recently revitalized ACME Collective (http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/about/editorialTeam). Please also remember that we look forward to working with submissions in Spanish, English, French, German and Italian. We are always interested in cutting edge queer, feminist, anti-racist, decolonizing, critical, Indigenous, and creative content! > <http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/about/editorialTeam> > > Warmly, > Sarah. > > Sarah de Leeuw | Associate Professor, Northern Medical Program > Career Investigator Scholar | Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research > Co-Editor | ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies > Research Associate | National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health > > New in 2015: > Determinants of Indigenous Peoples’ Health in Canada: Beyond the Social (http://www.cspi.org/books/determinants-of-indigenous-peoples-health-in-canada) > Skeena (Caitlin Press, http://caitlin-press.com/our-books/skeena/) > > University of Northern British Columbia > 3333 University Way, Prince George, BC V2N4Z9 > 1-250-807-9016<tel:1-250-807-9016> (office) | 1-250-640-6763<tel:1-250-640-6763> (mobile) > > ________________________________ > > Vol 15, No 2 (2016): Various Articles > Table of Contents > Interventions > Critical Reflections on Mental and Emotional Distress in the Academy<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1123> > Linda J. Peake, Beverley Mullings > > PDF (ENGLISH)<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1123/1171> > 253-284 > > Fuck Neoliberalism<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1342> > Simon Springer > > PDF (ENGLISH)<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1342/1172> PDF (?????? - HINDI)<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1342/1189> PDF (ESPAÑOL)<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1342/1184> PDF (PORTUGUÊS)<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1342/1188> PDF (FRANÇAIS)<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1342/1187> PDF (ITALIANO)<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1342/1186>PDF (DEUTSCH)<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1342/1185> PDF (???????? - GREEK)<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1342/1190> PDF (??? - JAPANESE)<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1342/1191> > 285-292 > > Placing the Militia Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Harney County, Oregon<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1312> > Carolyn Gallaher > > PDF (ENGLISH)<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1312/1173> > 293-308 > > Research > ‘The City Will be Ours: We Have So Decided’: Circulating Knowledges in a Feminist Register<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1127> > Fran Klodawsky, Caroline Andrew, Janet Siltanen > > PDF (ENGLISH)<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1127/1174> > 309-329 > > War-Zone Tourism: Thinking Beyond Voyeurism and Danger<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1304> > Gada Mahrouse > > PDF (ENGLISH)<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1304/1175> > 330-345 > > La Gestión Colectiva del Agua y los Habitus Según el Género. Acueductos Comunitarios en Dosquebradas Colombia<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1124> > Ana Patricia Quintana > > PDF (ESPAÑOL)<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1124/1176> > 346-364 > > Zines: Crafting Change and Repurposing the Neoliberal University<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1257> > Jennifer Jean Bagelman, Carly Bagelman > > PDF (ENGLISH)<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1257/1192> > 365-392 > > Eleven Antitheses on Cities and States: Challenging the Mindscape of Chronology and Chorography in Anthropogenic Climate Change<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1287> > Peter James Taylor, Geoff O'Brien, Phil O'Keefe > > PDF (ENGLISH)<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1287/1180> > 393-417 > > The Other Vietnam Syndrome: Corporeal Patriotism and Visualities of Resistance<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1059> > David Jansson > > PDF (ENGLISH)<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1059/1181> > 418-439 > > Creative | Alternative > 34 Ways to Coca-Cola<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1221> > Lara Haworth > > PDF (ENGLISH)<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1221/1182> > 440-481 > > What Will Stand: Songs from (F)light, a Collaborative Borderlands Song Cycle<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1187> > Eric Magrane, Wendy Burk, Erica Quin-Easter > > PDF (ENGLISH)<http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/view/1187/1183> > 482-510 > > > -- Simone Tulumello Post-doc research fellow, ULisboa, Instituto de Ciências Sociais Fulbright visiting scholar, University of Memphis, Department City and Regional Planning latest publication: Tulumello S., Picone M. (2016), “Shopping malls and neoliberal trends in Southern European cities: Post-metropolitan challenges for urban planning policy”, Finisterra – Revista Portuguesa de Geografia, LI(101), 111-132. Doi: 10.18055/Finis7071<http://revistas.rcaap.pt/finisterra/article/view/7071/6889>. webpage<http://www.ics.ulisboa.pt/pessoas/simone.tulumello> / blog<http://simonetulumello.wordpress.com/> / academia.edu<http://unipa.academia.edu/SimoneTulumello> / flickr<http://www.flickr.com/photos/simotulu/> / twitter<http://twitter.com/SimTulum>